SPECTRE AND MELTDOWN: Learning the correct response

Taos has been working on our internal patching and remediation processes surrounding the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities unearthed. Recently, many clients have been approaching us with questions about how they should respond to the new revelations found in the threats and we wanted to offer our help and insight regarding this problem corresponding to our knowledge of your specific environment.

Please let us know if there is any way we can help you with your remediation planning and execution.

The Taos patching team is continuously researching and studying the latest threats and created a brief report that provides knowledge and expertise on how clients should best respond to the new revelations found in the threats now known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Spectre and Meltdown are tricky to tackle. Most vulnerabilities take the form of a software bug that inherently provides a software fix. With a hardware vulnerability, software can lessen parts of the problem, but will never fully resolve the issue.Teams must be vigilant in tracking new exploits built around this threat and installing newly released software patches as soon as possible.